5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

topsyturphy

Frith - can understand your frustration. I only managed 1 academic year in a secondary school.

My pleasures for today

1-100 My dd gave birth to my dgs2 today, both are doing well.
2. Started a crochet blanket for dgs2.
3. Lamb steaks n mash for dinner.
4. Kitchen cleaned now sparkling including the hob.
5. Cup of hot milk before bed.

Skint_yet_Again

Congrats topsyturphy on the birth of your dgs2, glad to hear mum and baby are doing well x


LaineyT sorry to hear your news


mrs motivated thanks for the recipe ! Will put that on next weeks meal plan nom nom !


Pleasures for today


1. nice lie in


2. car collected for free MOT and it passed !


3. did some batch cooking


4.discovered aldi fiesta piri piri sauce tastes like nandos hot piri piri sauce for less than half the price


5. have felt really tired today so had an afternoon snooze ...and an early evening snooze too. Just trying to stay awake now waiting for DS to get home from work and then off to bed. Work tomorrow

Purple_kitten

TopsyTurvy: Congratulations to your family :beer:
1. I meal planned in my head but forgot to put it into action as the animals where about making getting to the freezer awkward and so I didn’t and then forgot:o:o:o. So tonight is cold pork leftovers used up with fresh bread from Lidl and pickle. While I wait for things to defrost.
2. No jobs out there today hoping it will pick up tomorrow, more over I’m hoping for feedback from last week.
3. Made a phone call about a cheque I’ve not received for 2 months, apparently it was sitting there doing nothing in the wrong department their end and will be with me in about 4 weeks! At least I jivvied them along.
4. Today has been a bit of a spend day, but on essential bills. I paid our large water bill and pre paid prescription, I also caved to buying an amazon book I would love to read called In Gods ruins I’ve been reading snippets when we go in shops and bought it online at £4 rather than from the bookstore sad to say as I also love spending time in book stores.
5. We went to Lidl for the first time in a while, it was a big shop for us coming in at £40 but it inluded everything toiletries, washing bits, and meat stock for the freezer.

LaineyT

Many congratulations TopsyTurby on the birth of your new Grandson
PK keeping fingers crossed for you re job, I have an interview tomorrow for the role applied for last week.

Some pleasures for yesterday,

Wet, windy and cold walk first thing with my girls, the pleasure was getting back home and getting warm and dry.

HM Broccoli and Stilton soup for lunch, perfect for such a day.

Took my equine pal for a short walk down the lane, the wind had a real bite to it so again pleasure was turning for home, found Bill's fleece in preparation for the temp dropping lower.

Enjoyed Uni Challenge and Only Connect, keep the little grey cells working.

Started new, to me, book. - Lark Rise to Candleford, the gentle story is just what I need at present.

DundeeDoll

congratulations topsyturvy :beer:
fingers crossed pk and laineyT
Well yesterday was a bit of an up and down sort of day, started sooo sadly with the news of Mr Bowie. I am a huge David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop fan. To hear two of them have succumbed to liver cancer is very sad, but what a fantastic legacy to leave
1) as someone pointed out on fb, the world is over 4 billion years old and I had the fortune to live same time as Bowie :cool:
2) hm spicy lentil stew for lunch yum
3) my first cohort of distance learners started - 171 students!!! (we brush over the fact that moodle 'which never goes down unlike blackboard' went down , focussing rather on the fact it did come back up!)
4) brilliant session organised by new colleague. Speed dating for research. we were spread amongst the masters students who are doing their research module by the end of which they have to have come up with their masters project idea. So yesterday was 3 minutes at a time hearing their idea and giving feedback. very energising
5) supper with dd2 at mum's. have shared martin's email re. first time buyer ISA with dd2 (and dd1, ds and 2 young colleagues at work!) and after supper lots and lots of bowie :A

ampersand

Oh, & shares that day with your ds, dd. Belateds to him from moi. Extra candle puff this way please. Nahnah reelynot...&'s pretty resilient and darns up well, if not necessarily invisibly; a rather well-worked hinterland there;-)

Some connectivity resumption stuttering along this a.m. I find.

1. ......however, at bell 1,[& just back from London] a'phone suddenly sprang into life, with enzed relating beloved 91/5 Uncle's admission to hospital, hours old-ish msg. Balance loss repeating a bit too often. resulting in slow-healings and bumps [as & recalls with her grand'mère, his maman]. Have not been able to speak with ANYONE there since and am trying all, all, all ways. At least & knows.

2. Sunday empathetically spent, [but not in France, so wrongly, that day of all days.] 1st daylight bit of Sunday ditto AND crossed paths, even more ditto, again. This was all excellent.

3. Off base on Sunday, so was able to speak to France and enzed[ not famberley home no.s though]. Needed this sort of 'good.'

4. Parliament all day yesterday. More likely.

5. 12-9 and 38-7. So, a phew! and a goodo at w/e. Rugby teatowels nearing end of their second boil as we speak.
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More than a pleasure, a full-tilt aunty beeb COMMANDMENT to all[ inc. bop]

Reclaim the real National Velvet by listening to and loving this wonderful 2-parter. Credit Peter Flannery for this one. It is supreme. Focus on 'reclaim', before you decide not to:
[which isn't allowed]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03m7p9z

& was scribbling down extraordinary, haunting bits of phrasing....will just have to buy a particular edn [ it's never been out of print] despite Enid Bagnold being cameronuxor's great-gran.

Might make that pressie to self, altho' wanted portcullis earrings hier. Don't exist apparently[monkey metal cufflinks ony] but idea was declared excellent. & has staked claim for 1st pair and commission on sales.
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All strong good wishes for i/v tmrw, Lainey [in case this goes invisible again]and best news for you, pk.
Also, re: water bill[ having read of you paying yours]. & has had ridiculous claim of more than trebled usage. 1 qtr only, and the promised dated timed call[14h] for 5 Jan has not taken place. Meter hasn't moved stupidly, so no idea where nonsense is coming from. Utility companies need hawk-watch atd.

Purple_kitten

Ampersand: Funny you should mention that re water bill. We are very low users but our bill was very heavy, I phoned them and they have today replaced our metre, was there something wrong will they admit it, hmm I doubt it somehow.
LaineyT: Best of luck.

1. After a bad night’s sleep I got up early and unusually for me decided to do a brekkie for myself and DH, I grilled bacon and sausages, poached eggs, cooked up tinned beans and toms with a large cuppa and felt rather too full for someone who doesn’t particularly do breakfast at breakfast time:o
2. I set to work, hoovered, put a coat of paint around the new built in wardrobe, I’ve been meaning to for ages I am useless at painting but this coat didn’t go wrong – could it?:o Then I started on the bubbled up paint on the window sill stripping it back with the hot air gun that didn’t have a long enough lead, did I mention I’m not a fan of decorating.:rotfl: Then DH decided to “help” I would do it like this, so I tried it, I burnt it, it doesn’t suit me then had to stop for 45mins to let the tool cool down enough to take his gadget off it.. <Tea Break> Ho hum but when it’s complete we can put down our carpet offcut that’s perfect and big enough for our room thankfully…Numerous thoughts about getting a “pro” in to do it, sadly the bank account doesn’t allow.
3. Lunch was plain noodles with a tin of tuna and it was lovely. Tonight’s dinner is a mint marinade chop with a slow oven cooked stuffed pepper, I have just spent an age preparing the innards for the pepper, an exceptionally faffy creation, perhaps I’m just in a not in the mood to cook mood:rotfl:..
4. 2 loads of animal bedding washed and drying on radiators.
5. My book arrived and it’s enthralling, I shall continue reading it after posting this.:)
6. There was still daylight at gone 4pm - horray, and the pond has flowers out.
7. Looking forward to a long soak later.

villagelife

Congratulations topsy turvy.

Seeing the stars this morning when letting the chickens out. It seems a while since the sky was clear enough to see them.

Laughter over various silly things at work. Also I've taken my lunch in every working day so far this year.

Managed to arrive home at a reasonable time from work and have cook jacket potatoes for tea with a rice pudding.

Enjoying my scented candle.

VJsmum

Evening all

Happy belated birthday DS of DD

Pleasures for the last few

1 nice lazy Sunday. OH and I walked into town where I found a brand new coat in a chazzer for £20 :T. Just after having said how much I hated my coat. New one is warmer too
2 came home and watched a DVD, the girl with the dragon tattoo. It was a bit :eek: for a Sunday afternoon, but we couldn't agree on a cinema film and we had that one in and never watched it, some saved £20 on cinema tickets - paid for my coat :rotfl:
3 OH cooked Sunday tea of roast chicken. Leftovers were put on a plate in the fridge and I have just had them for today's tea
4 back to the office yesterday - did my last lecture for this Uni. I would be :j but it doesn't feel like the last anything yet as I've so much to do. Good walks to and fro, and caught up my trade mag reading on the train - still operating on a "DGAF" basis
5. Did a fast day in an attempt to get back to pre Christmas weight. We were going to attempt a dry January, but didn't want to put pressure on so we are doing a "not drinking in the house ary"
6 spent the evening trying to find photos to put in a photo book, using up a voucher I got before Christmas. Last night we did 2008, and awwwed at our babies - specially DS who was a cute little 8 / 9 year old and is now a surly 6'1 nearly 17 year old :rotfl:
7 worked at home today, getting through the emails. That is the pleasure though I think I am at the beck and call of these students too much. Not for much longer... I have made a point of switching my email off at 8 o'clock
8 watched my favourite Bowie song "life on Mars" from my favourite place Glastonbury.

Right, time to get busy doing nothing

Frith

Quick pleasures for today as I'm tired


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Snowed a little bit! But no one noticed except me which led to a lot of doubtful looking faces.


3) Went to see my friend after work for a cup of tea.


4) Cleaned the bathroom, which needed doing.


5) New National Trust magazine and yearbook came in the post.


6) Quite enjoyed the Derren Brown thing but sons have talked loudly, non-stop. In fact, I'm surprised they have stopped now they're in bed!


7) In bed with 1 hwb now. Cat in smaller son's bed which will mean getting up in the night to put her downstairs.